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Updated: May 5, 2025
More dead than alive he crawled, at last, up to the door of the cabin and staggered in when Tom opened to his knock. While he gasped out his story, the older brother looked more closely to the barring of the window-shutters and put fresh powder in the priming-pans of the guns. Ten minutes after Jeremy, his father appeared, wet to the skin and with a grim look around his bearded jaws.
The guns used by travellers in the Great Nor'-west in those days were long single-barrels with flint-locks, the powder in which was very apt to get wet through priming-pans and touch-holes, so that frequent inspection was absolutely necessary.
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